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It only really works for an amount of hundreds not divisible by 10. i.e. forty five hundred works but forty hundred doesn't.
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You wait until you hear about crore and lakh
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$5,000? Fifty hundred! Come on.
$7,000? Seventy hundred! Dude, wtf!?En NY cabbie Francais: sixty ten hundred
$8,000?
four twenty hundred
$9,800?
four twenty ten eight hundred?
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Ignore this
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Have we had the US thing for "hundreds"?
Generally not fussed by Americanisms, but this gets me.
$1,500? Fifteen hundred, ok sure. It's shorter than saying one thousand five hundred. Likewise seventeen hundred, but they just keep going...